[news.eclipse.modeling.mdt] Re: [Announce] BPMN2 component proposal

[hmalphettes@xxxxxxxxxxx (Hugues Malphettes)]

Hi Kenn,

I am the lead developer for the STP-BPMN modeler: 
http://www.eclipse.org/stp/bpmn/

I am excited to see interest in the BPMN modeler developed in eclipse.
I am puzzled however at the idea of starting a new project at this point.

There is a community in eclipse working on BPMN.
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We have in STP a community interested in BPMN and its application.
We would love to have the proposed contributers of this proposal join our 
efforts.
We are definitely looking for contributors.
Please let us know what problems were identified in our modeler.

On the implementation side: GMF nicely decouples the domain model from its 
visualization. Even if we were to find out that a new domain model is 
needed, we would benefit from our common efforts on the user-interactions 
specific to GMF. That is where in my experience we spend the most time.

We do feel quite opened minded and you can notice that the STP-PMC accepts 
new contributors regularly: we could make a BPMN-2.0 branch if that is 
what it takes. Otherwise let's use, the stp-dev mailing list, the 
stp-newsgroup, the wiki, the website and all the eclipse infrastructure.

BPMN-2.0 has not reached the stage where a public draft is available.
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Please correct me if I am wrong and do send me a link to a BPMN-2.0 draft; 
I have not found it.

In that case it will be hard to discuss the specification outside of the 
OMG itself. In fact I would even worry about IP if we start discussing non 
publicly available documents.

The advantage of this situation is: the OMG can make sure that discussions 
are constrained to interested OMG members.
I think it would not help to distract them from their process before a 
public draft is accessible.


Thanks for your attention,
Hugues.